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Drought-plagued California tries drink ocean (hold the salt)
2014-03-04 14:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Despite the pugnacious storms that had California on the ropes this past weekend, the state is still in the middle of a record-making drought. The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains is well under half its usual level for this time of year, and theres almost certainly no way to catch up this late in the season. Enter the ongoing construction of 17 desalination plants across the state. A $1 billion plant being built in Carlsbad, Calif., expected to be ready by 2016, will pump 50 million gallons...
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